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    Hello,
    I've made many purchases from those guys:
    http://www.libertye-online.com/

    they have most of those laser lens at very good prices and when installed all worked like a charm

    be the force with you...

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    Sorry for the bump of an old thread.

    I tried a Optima-150 in a Sega CD2. I ordered a Optima 6.....got sent the wrong one, some funny bastard replaced the sticker on the laser or it has been incorrectly marked as a 6, the box it came in said "Optima 150".

    It does not work. I have temporarily used one out of a Saturn (Optima 6) and the console works, I just wanted to replace the one I borrowed from the Saturn.

    One thing I did notice on the 150 laser though was there was no solder bridge, there was a spot for it but it wasn't bridged. I have contacted seller for the correct laser and a replacement.

    With the 150 in the Sega CD2 it spins up as if trying to read the disc. If I turn the machine on with the disc in, it pretty much straight away says no disc. If I turn it on and then put the disc in, it just tries to read, spinning the disc doing nothing.
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    The 150 you got without the bridge probably had it removed due to being a used laser or pulled from a working console/assembly.

    Shame you can't use a KSS-210A. I have a dead SegaCD2 here with an entire laser assembly I could ship out but it uses dual connectors and not just a single ribbon.
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    Yea, I am not sure what the go is, not happy about it anyway as I have done my money on it. They would want it shipped back and yadda yadda. I saw another seller that sells the Optima-150 and the laser they have doesn't have a solder "blob" but a "static protection bar" in the socket.

    The Saturn I got the laser from was just a parts unit anyway, it is missing a power supply. It was an American console at the video game shop I do repairs for, some Galah plugged it into the power point without looking (live in Australia) and blew the power supply up. They asked me to repair it for them and I looked at the power input and noticed it was an odd shape (flat one side of the figure 8 connector, in Australia it is rounded both sides), then saw the specs "input 120v"...... They gave it to me for parts.

    Anyway, bit off topic that....

    I believe I purchased the Sega CD2 lid and spring from you from Assembler forums?

    I have another 2 Sega CD2's to fix up, (both use the Samsung SOH-OT4 laser) one needed the lid, the other needs a new laser, which I have ordered (different supplier) hopefully I have better luck. The supplier of the Samsung laser also has the JVC one so if it works out I will get one from them. I have confirmed both Sega CD2's work as I swapped the laser's back and forth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by APE992 View Post
    The 150 you got without the bridge probably had it removed due to being a used laser or pulled from a working console/assembly.

    Shame you can't use a KSS-210A. I have a dead SegaCD2 here with an entire laser assembly I could ship out but it uses dual connectors and not just a single ribbon.
    I could use a KSS-210A. I can get it new from Liberty Electronics for about 20$ so if you can make a better deal while being shipped to Canada, I'll take it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by omp! View Post
    I believe I purchased the Sega CD2 lid and spring from you from Assembler forums?
    That you did, poor little guy met his demise at the hands of a NES power adapter. Nintendo sure did love AC over DC.
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    Hello folks
    Yep another bump of this thread.
    I had trouble getting the Samsung SOH-OT4 laser for my Sega CD2. It never showed up so I had to go elsewhere but had trouble finding it. I did find however Samsung SOH90-T4N quite easily. Some sites (mostly Russian?) showed it as SOH90-T4/SOH-OT4.

    I thought, with the luck these Sega CD2's have given me (bad), I had nothing else to lose. I bought it from Liberty electronics as I had luck with them on the Optima-6S laser to fix another Sega CD2 (the only downer was they sent me laser only not the whole mech as I paid for).

    Well I installed it this morning and it works! So if you have to replace the laser in a Sega CD2 fitted with the Samsung SOH-OT4 laser, the SOH90-T4N will work. Strangely the box says SOH90-T4N where the label on the laser itself says SOH-OT4......

    The only difference from the original laser is this one has a plastic body, which is slightly larger and the laser head is a bit wider. This is all that probably distinguishes from the 2, pin for pin they are the same.

    To install it I had to pop off the gear that moves the laser, whereas usually you could just wiggle the metal bodied one in place.

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